"The real America", supposedly.
On paper my hometown should be a great place to live. Income above the national average, extremely low crime rate, good schools, etc etc...
But see that's the thing, "on paper". In practice it's a shithole filled with some of the worst people I have ever had the displeasure of encountering. Again, people in NYC are downright sociable next to these dickheads. My pale ass used to get interrogated by my elderly neighbors because seeing people going for a walk without some malicious intent was so unheard of in that place. The suburbs sucks, I don't know why people on this site specifically get so butthurt about this obvious fact. I'm guessing it's because you never experienced any significantly different way of life then what you're used to and don't realize just how absolutely fucking terrible it is. Like, again, I can talk shit about people in rural areas all I want, but if you're an outdoorsy type or somebody who just generally hates people it's great. Living in a city is a pain in the ass, but you're also surrounded by opportunities you wouldn't get anywhere else and you're never short of something to do on a Friday night. The suburbs? It's got neither of that, it's just a fucking desert. In fact that's not fair, the ACTUAL desert has some beauty to it if you're into that. Your average suburb is just a huge expanse of sprawl totally lacking in anything resembling shared community life, or even a meaningful private one. Like just consider this, for all the problems with where I live, people are fucking outside. I talk to my neighbors more living in the city then I ever did back home. It's a small thing but it can be hard to miss how important that kind of thing is. Modern suburbs by contrast were built specifically to prevent that. And that's why it's so easy to miss just how fucked up the shit surrounding you is.